Hi Glos Guy. Thank you so much for replying and providing advice, it is so much appreciated. Prior to this vehicle my car was a Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV which I owned since about 2017.. when energy prices were a lot lower. Most of my mileage is local now, and I remain convinced that a PHEV, with cheaper electric at night, provides more economical driving under my circumstances with local driving..(retired, not doing long journeys, never use public chargers). A really big advantage for me under these circumstances was when fuel shortages occurred. As soon as the government say don’t panic, you know happens, everyone goes out and fills up!. Full tank of petrol, keeping the PHEV charged up, never needing to fill up or queue for pumps etc, mentally, it was quite a relief. Does not suit everyone, and I am not convinced this is the future, but it really does work ok for me at this time.
No worries. I didn’t realise you were on your second PHEV. When you mentioned 120 mpg I assumed that you were falling in to the trap that most PHEV drivers on this forum seem to do, which is to assume that the mpg stated in the car was accurate!
I’m only 4 months and not quite 3,000 miles in to my first PHEV and I’m yet to be convinced about them. My previous 2.0i petrol 4WD BMW X1 averaged 42.2 mpg over 3 years and obviously never required charging, just one 5 minute refuel stop every 3 weeks or so. I do a mix of local (which for me is 25 mile round trip) and longer journeys and always charge after each use. Working out the mpg accurately (using the methodology described earlier) I am averaging 48.5 mpg. Yes, that’s 6 mpg better than I was getting, but I’d probably trade that 6 mpg to not have the faff of charging it after every use. I’m currently doing an experiment where I’m using a whole tank of petrol whilst not charging the car at all, to see how bad the mpg gets, and it’s currently (with half a tank used so far) delivering just 32 mpg, some 10 mpg worse than the BMW. Obviously that’s down to the additional weight of the battery and the fact that the petrol engine in the Tucson is just 1.6 litres. Looking on the bright side it’s the first time that the in-car fuel computer has been accurate!